Parast is an Eminent Scholar at the Del E. Webb School of Construction. His current research is focused on supply chain risk and resilience management, and process and product innovation.

Dr. Atkinson has managed a career across the higher education landscape. He has balanced an ability to navigate the complexity of technology's impact on society while developing his leadership and scholarship.

Li is a biological oceanographer, remote sensing scientist, and computer scientist.

Yule is a data scientist working to maximize the impact of National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Biorepository data and facilitate understanding of how ecological communities respond to global change.

Lan's research interests include statistical inference, Bayesian modeling and uncertainty quantification.